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SAND BAND.

.No. 274,885. PatentedMar.Z7,1883;

WITNESSES INVENTOR- a4 ZW TTORNEYS N4 PEIERS, Plmo-Lilhn vz hu. Washington. D. C.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WESLEY coLE, OF MENOMONEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOB TO JOHN GRAY, or

i SAME PLACE.

SAND-BAND.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,885, dated March 27, 1883.

- Application filed January 4, 1883. (No model.)

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,

referencebein g had to the accompanying draw-t ings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. j

Figurel of the drawings is a representation of this invention in a longitudinal section.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail, showing the sand-band before it is attached to the hub. V

This invention has relation to sand bands or shields for the hubs 'of vehicle-wheels; and the novelty consists in a band or shield having flaring ends and a circumferential depression between said ends, in combination with an axle having an annularbeading or collar formed thereon, and engagingone of the ends of the band as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the hub of a wheel; and B represents the sand-band or dust-guard, which is secured by one of its flaring ends, 6, around the inner end of the hub ofthe wheel. The other flaring end, 9, extends over and around the annular beading or raised collar 01 on the axle, andsurrounds the same sufflciently closely to prevent the access of sand or mudto the spindle within the hub. Between the flaring ends 6 and g the band is concave or depressed cir- I cumferentially, in order to deflect sand and dust 40 from its ends toward its depressed central portion, 2.. The object of the flaring end g is to provide for a close engagement of the band B with the beading or collar (1, and on account of the peculiar concave shape of the band it 5 serves to deflect from theinner end of the hub the particles of sand and mud which are thrown against the band when the wheel is in motion.

Having described this invention, what I 0 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The sand-band B, having the flaring ends 2 and g, and the circumferential depression a between said flaring ends, in combination with 55 the axle having the annular head or collar 01 within the inner flaring end of the band, and engaging the same, substantially as specified.

\ In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WESLEY COLE. Witnesses: OJN. TWEET,

PETER PETERSON. 

